2008–09 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Netherlands

2008–09 A1GP of the Netherlands
Race Details
Race 1 of 7 in the 2008–09 A1 Grand Prix season
Date	October 5, 2008
Location	Circuit Park Zandvoort Zandvoort, Netherlands
Weather	Wet, Heavy Rain 12°C
Sprint race
Qualifying
Pole	Netherlands (J.Bleekemolen)
Time	1'24.213
Podium
1st	Malaysia (Fairuz Fauzy)
2nd	New Zealand (Earl Bamber)
3rd	France (Loïc Duval)
Fastest Lap
FL	France (Loïc Duval)
Time	1'45.939, (Lap 6)
Feature race
Qualifying
Pole	Malaysia (Fairuz Fauzy)
Time	none
Podium
1st	France (Loïc Duval)
2nd	Malaysia (Fairuz Fauzy)
3rd	New Zealand (Earl Bamber)
Fastest Lap
FL	USA (Charlie Kimball)
Time	1'47.115, (Lap 30)
Official Classifications
PDF Booklet

The 2008–09 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Netherlands was an A1 Grand Prix race, held at Circuit Park Zandvoort, Zandvoort, Netherlands. It was originally set to be the second race of the 2008–09 A1 Grand Prix season, but a delay in the build schedule of the new chassis forced the race at Mugello to be moved from the season opener. The same build delay meant that only seventeen of the twenty-three A1 teams participated in the race.

This was the first race for A1 Team Korea (Hwang Jin-Woo), A1 Team Monaco (Clivio Piccione), and the new "Powered by Ferrari" A1GP car.

On 26 September, an article on the official A1GP website, detailed that a full grid of cars would not be on track at Zandvoort for the race weekend, due to the build schedule delay. It was subsequently confirmed that a maximum of eighteen teams will be racing – Canada, Germany (Michael Ammermüller), Great Britain (Danny Watts), India (Narain Karthikeyan) and Mexico (Davíd Garza Pérez) will thus make their season debut at the second round in China. Germany (Michael Ammermüller) did not, in fact, debut until round 5 in South Africa, while Canada did not appear all season.

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